About Max Neukirchen

Max Neukirchen is responsible for leading JP Morgan's Payments & Commerce Solutions business, where he holds full end-to-end accountability across Go-to-market and Sales, Product Development and Maintenance, Engineering and Technology, as well as Operations and Client Service. The global Payments & Commerce Solutions platform under his leadership encompasses a wide range of services, including Pay-In businesses like Merchant Services and Receivables, Pay-Out businesses such as real-time payments, wires, ACH, and Commercial Cards, along with all payments-related value-added services like analytics and FX. Max oversees these operations across North America, EMEA, LatAm, and APAC, ensuring the delivery of innovative and comprehensive solutions to clients globally. 1997-2001, studies in physics, Cambridge and Technische Universität München; MPhil in Physics, Univ. of Cambridge, UK; 2006, PhD in Finance, Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Sydney, Australia. 2002-13, with McKinsey & Co.: 2002-06, at the German and London offices; 2006-13, at the New York office; from 2009, Partner; led transformation programmes for banks around business strategy and risk management. Since 2013, with JPMorgan Chase & Co.: Head of Strategy; resp. for developing and driving the strategic agenda, covering strategic priorities firmwide and for individual lines of business.